I found Washington DC to be a very long and rambling story of secret agents and political intrigue. In many ways it felt rather naively written with many curious expressions and cliches that felt out of place sometimes. The book could probably be shortened by about a third since it contained much verbosity that became annoying after about ten of the 86 chapters.

Lavina Giamusso has included a lot of very interesting “inside” information about Mossad and the CIA which fortunately kept my attention most of the time. I found it quite confusing when on the same, or subsequent pages, there were three characters whose name were so similar that I had to keep going back to check which part in the story they were playing. They were Sam; Samuel and Samir, so when another character called Sadir appeared I became even more frustrated with “who was who?”.

There is much to commend the majority of this thrilling story and I feel sure that with some skilful pruning Ms Giamusso has a successful novel on her word-processor. But for me it was too long and had too many unnecessary explanations and expressions.